The Coalville Times

Sues Infanta Eulalia.

"I'll teach that Infanta a thing or two!" exclaimed Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, when the Paris correspondent of an American paper called to inquire into the meaning of the legal proceedings she had ordered instituted in the French capital jointly against the Infanta Eulalia of Spain and the noted Paris mantua-maker, M. Armand.

The Infanta visited New York and other cities of America, it will be remembered, during the Columbian exposition as representative of the Spanish royal family and acquired something of a reputation for her eccentricities.

Mrs. Yerkes is the wife of the American traction magnate who is about to start an electric underground railway in London.

Mrs. Yerkes declined to talk much about the case, but the correspondent learned that the princess and the dressmaker are charged with conspiring to prevent the delivering to Mrs. Yerkes of a number of dresses she had ordered and had tried on several times.

It seems that when Mrs. Yerkes' gowns, eight in number, were ready they were shown to the Infanta as specimens of the firm's work. The princess fell in love with two of the dresses and offered to buy them provided M. Armand would not duplicate them for the American millionairess. M. Armand promised and offered Mrs. Yerkes two other models gratis. But the American woman rebelled violently and refused to accept any of the gowns unless the whole original lot were delivered to her immediately.

After two days' argument back and forth she decided to seek legal redress.